Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017 now available for download

Microsoft Visual Studio team is now rolling out Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017. The Productivity Power Tools is a collection of extensions that improve the developer experience with Visual Studio IDE.

New in Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2017

Now each of the Productivity Power Tools features has its separate extensions. According to the team, it gives you more flexibility over how you acquire and manage the tools, as you can now hand-pick and install just the components that you want to use.

Also, it means that each of the extensions can be updated and delivered at its own pace. Also, Visual Studio team can now monitor the popularity of each extension. Features that prove most popular will be considered for inclusion in future versions of Visual Studio.

A list of features released as individual extensions for Visual Studio 2017:

Align Assignments: Adds a command to Visual Studio to align assignments. By default, this is bound to Ctrl+Alt+]

Copy as HTML: Adds support to copy the selected editor text to clipboard in HTML format